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'''Note that some India Office Records will not be found in the findmypast database''', (for technical or other reasons) but may be found on [[IGI|FamilySearch]], as transcribed index records and microfilms. Examples are some/all of the records from Madras: Baptisms, Marriages, Burials (Oct 1815-May 1818) IOR/N/2/6 [[IGI|FamilySearch]] microfilm 506957 and Madras: Roman Catholic Returns of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (1838-1839) IOR/N/2/RC/1-2 [[IGI|FamilySearch]] microfilm 530008.
'''Update''': findmypast released additional records 23 December 2015.
*Over 23,000 additions to British India Office Births & Baptisms records.
*New records added to British India Office Marriages. “The marriages are comprised of ecclesiastic of the archives of the East India Company (1600-1858), the Board of Control or Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (1784 – 1858), the India Office (1858-1947), the Burma Office (1937-1947), and a number of related British agencies”. <ref>
[https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/british-india-office-marriages-1522895484.html British India Office Marriages] findmypast blog.</ref>
* Over 16,000 additions to British India Office Wills & Probate records.
* Nearly 2,000 additions to British India Office Assistant Surgeons records.
==Other records==
There are other findmypast datasets which contain or may contain records relating to India.
*findmypast category "Newspapers, directories & social history/ Social history"
**British In India. Released 24 December 2015. Transcriptions and images from cards completed by Major Vernon Charles Padget Hodson (1883-1963), Lt. Col. Herbert Kendall Percy-Smith FSG (1897-1975) and others held at the [[Society of Genealogists]], "British in India documents female relatives of officers of the Bengal Army, Madras Army and Bombay Army, along with British civil servants, chaplains, merchants, plantation owners, labourers and British people in India after the East India Company period".
*findmypast category "Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records"
**British Nationals Armed Forces Births, Marriages, Deaths. (3 datasets). For a description of these index records see [[Chaplains Returns]].
**British Nationals Born Overseas, Married Overseas, Died Overseas. (3 datasets). Currently (February 2015) these are index records. For a description see [[General Register Office]]
**A dataset called "British Overseas Marriages" 1818-2005, includes some transcriptions of marriages at St John's Calcutta and , in spite of the dataset title, appear to be from the late 1700s/early 1800s. These are transcriptions, elsewhere <ref>W., Hugh [http://hughw36.blogspot.com.au/2008_08_31_archive.html Genealoge] September 06, 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2015</ref> stated to be from records at the [[Society of Genealogists]], and are very limited in information. Only the year of marriage is given, and there are no details of the spouse. See [[Calcutta]] for '''possible''' sources of these records. There are also records from other counties in this dataset.
